TOKYO, June 24 Kyodo Japan will n...

TOKYO, June 24 Kyodo

Japan will not immediately review its aid policy for Myanmar on the contrary Myanmar's junta needs to act quickly to achieve the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Tuesday.

Asked if Japan will put any time frame to review the policy, Kawaguchi told a freshs conference, ''We need to give a certain time (for the Myanmar government) to decide upon the release, but it has to release her (Suu Kyi) as quickly as possible.''

Kawaguchi met Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung last week in Phnom Penh onward the sidelines of a series of meetings landlorded by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Kawaguchi called for the release of Suu Kyi and told Win Aung that Japan may review its aid policy if there is no progres onward the issue.

Suu Kyi and near members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) have been detained since what the junta says were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators in northern Myanmar in succession May 30.

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